Podcast Episodes

150. John Brown - Part I: American Abolitionist

Episode 150

Happy Independence Day! It's July 4th which means that it's the perfect time to talk about some classic American history. I was hoping to get this into one epidoe but alas, there's too much to tell. …

Published on 2 months, 1 week ago

149. Mary Astor - Hollywood and Scandal

Episode 149

A film noir femme fatale, actress Mary Astor found herself embroiled in a custody battle and "crime of the century!" A scandal so inticing that it knocked the news of fascists off of the front page o…

Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago

148. King Edward II - Bisexual Chaos Monarch

Episode 148

King Edward II had everything he needed in life, a great education, a throne to sit upon, huge tracts of land and a beautiful face... unfortunately his greatest achievement as King was having a pirat…

Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago

147. Alan Turing - The Codebreaker

Episode 147

Alan Turing is a man who deserved to be celebrated, a cryptanalyst, mathematician and codebreaker who helped win the Second World War, A man who was possibly neurodivergent and definitely homosexual.…

Published on 2 months, 4 weeks ago

146. Billy Tipton - Trans Jazz Icon

Episode 146

It's Pride month and so it's the perfect time to tack about trans cultural icon, Billy Lee Tipton - a transgender jazz musician, who performed all over the country, had five dogs, five wives and a gr…

Published on 3 months ago

145. Louisa May Alcott

Episode 145

This Pride Month, let us tell a tale of one of the best-known authors and least-known asexuals in history - Miss Louisa May Alcott. You may know her as the writer of the classic novel, Little Women, …

Published on 3 months, 1 week ago

144. The Marchioness Disaster

Episode 144

1989 in London, England, 130 partygoers boarded a small pleasure boat - The Marchioness - for a birthday bash cruise down the Thames river. Less than an hour later, over a third of these people would…

Published on 3 months, 2 weeks ago

143. When MIT & Quaker Oats Tested Radiation on Children

Episode 143

Massachusetts has a shadow on its history, that of the Fernald School in South Boston, an institution designed to provide children with intellectual disabilities skills that they would be able to hav…

Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago

142. Harmen van den Bogaert

Episode 142

Harmen van den Bogaert was one of the earliest colonisers settlers in 17th Century North America, an ambassador to the Mohawks, he has a bright future which leads to what the Dutch Republic would cal…

Published on 4 months ago

141. That Time the USA Banned Sliced Bread

Episode 141

Sometimes history is depressing, other times it's downright silly, like that time America outright banned sliced bread, much to the chagrin to housewives everywhere!

Hosted by Katie Charlwood 

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Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago